Igor Jan

The tenor Igor Jan, graduate of the St. Petersburg’s Academy and the student of the professor Pluznikov, became the soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre. Till 2002, he interpreted number of Russian and world opera roles there. He won many international singing competitions, for example, the vocal competition of Maria Callas and Giacomo Puccini in Italy, competitions in Holland and former Yugoslavia. Successful participations in the singing competitions opened him the gate to the stages and concert halls in many Western European and Asian countries. From September 1991, he has been engaged as the soloist in the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava. From 1992, he has been the permanent guest of the Prague State Opera where he sang the role of Hoffmann in the Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann, Gustavo III in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, the Duke in Rigoletto, Alfredo in La traviata, Radames in Aida, Ismael in Nabucco, Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca, Don José in Bizet’s Carmen, Enzo in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, Faust in Gounod’s Faust, Herman in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Marcello in Leoncavallo’s La Boheme and Kalaf in Puccini’s Turandot. He has also been a regular guest of the theatre stages in Bratislava and Brno. During the last few seasons, he performed abroad with excellent singing celebrities. In Vienna he sang with Edit Gruber in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, in Japan with Eva Marton and Maria Guleghina in Tosca and with Inés Salazar in Aida. He collaborated with several significant conductors, among others with Andrew Litton, Valerij Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda and Stefan Lano.